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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS GQDAVIS, on WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.

,SHIPPING-VCOVER FoR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,833, dated October23, 1894. Application filed July 26, 1894- Serial No. 518,678. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS G. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of New York,have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in Shipping-Coversfor Vehicles; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being badto the accompanylng drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My said invention consists in an improved cover or wrapper to be placedand secured about carriages or other vehicles preparatory to shipment ofthe same, for the purpose of protecting them from dust, rain ordefacement while in transit; and relates especially to the shape of suchcovers, the method of folding and securing the same in order to protectthe inclosed vehicle, as well as to provide for convenience in applyingthem and a certain amount of adjustability, adapting the cover for useon vehicles of different sizes.

In shipping carriages it is customary to remove the wheels from theaxles and to disconnect the shafts or pole from the body of the vehicle,thus leaving the body or box, the seat and also the top, in a compactand sub stantially cubical form adapted to be easily crated. The top mayalso be disconnected from the bodyif desired. My improved cover isapplied to the vehicle thus dismantled, before the crating is put on.Such covers have heretofore been made in the form substantially of a bagor hood closed on all sides and open only at one end, and intended to bedrawn over the vehicle. Such covers have been found very inconvenient inuse, difficult of application to the vehicle, and lacking inadjustability to vehicles of different sizes. By my improvedconstruction the cover may be applied easily, quickly and without dangerof tearing; and considerable variation in the size of the vehicle to beprotected is provided for.

In the drawings Fig. 1 represents my improved cover spread out flat.Fig. 2 represents the same after being applied to an ordinarytop buggy,before the crating has been put on. I

The cover is made of any suitable inexpensive material, preferably of astout, waterproof paper. It consists of a central portion A,longitudinal extensions B, (J, and lateral flaps D, E. The whole covermay be cut from a single blank, but it is more economical of material tosecure the lateral flaps D, E, to the central and longitudinal portionsby means of pasted or glued-seams along their lines of junction withsuch portions. The central portion A is made of the proper size to coverthe top of the carriage to be packed. Greases are formed in the cover onthe lines f, f, and g, g, extending across the spaces A, D and E, onwhich 1ines,in applying the cover, the extensions B, O, are folded downto cover the back and front respectively. The side flaps D, E, arefolded down on their lines of junction with the central portion A, tocover the sides of the carriage. Tucks is, k, are formed at the pointswhere the end portions (1, e, of the lateralfiaps D, E, join theportions B, G; and the nds d, e, are then folded around upon the back Band the front 0. The portions 01,6, are provided with eyelets, 1,1,suitably reinforced, along their edges, through which strings are tiedor laced, firmly securing these parts of the cover. The end portions 6,c, of the extensions B, O, are then folded under on the lines h, h, and1', i, respectively, to cover the bottom. Eyelets Z, Z, are formed inthe ends of parts I) and a, through which strings are tied or laced tosecure the said ends to each other under the vehicle, thus completingthe adjustment of the cover. v

It will be observed that a cover thus constructed has a considerablerange of adaptation to vehicles of different sizes, or to differentmethods of packing; so that if the vehicle is large in proportion to thecover the lacings in the eyelets can be extended; and if small saidlacings may be shortened; thus securing a cover easily applied andfitting well under all circumstances.

Different sizes of my covers may of course be made, the proportions ofthe various parts being varied according to the peeuli'aritiesof ablefastenings "for securing the opposed the vehicle they are intended tofit. edges of said extensions to each other and of I claim as myinvention-- said end-flaps to each other, substantially as Ashipping-cover for vehicles having a censet forth. I 5

5 tral portion A adapted to cover the top of the In testimonywhereofIaffix my signature in veibiezge, longitudinal extensionsjor endfialpsy presence of two "witnesses; B, ,0, adapted to be folded downtocover the back, front and bottom, side-flaps D, E, FRANCIS DAVIS adaptedto be folded down tocover the sides, Witnesses: 1o extensions (1, e, ofsaid side-flaps, adapted to JOHN E. FOLEY, be folded around upon theend-flaps, and snit- H. C. TYLER.

